tercentenary performance in Prague (1864)
tercentenary performance in Stratford (1864)
Tian Han’s adaptation
Tian Qinxin’s adaptation
Zhu qing
Romeoville, Illinois
Rondebosch, Cape Town
Roosevelt, Franklin Delano
Roscius
Rose theatre, Southwark
Rosebank, Johannesburg
Rothe, Hans
Rou quan see Merchant of Venice, The
Rough and Ready, California
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques
Rowe, Joseph Andrew
Rowe, Nicholas
Roy, Amitava
Roy, Bimal
Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC)
Rudolph, Birgit
Rundall, Thomas
Rural Rides (Cobbett)
Russia
Ryback, Timothy
Rylance, Mark
S
Sacramento, California
Sahu, Kishore
Said-e-Havas (Hashr play)
Saitama, Japan
Salt Lake City, Utah
San Diego, California
San Francisco, California
Sand, George
Sanders portrait
Sanskrit
Sapru, D. K.
Saptapadi (Indian movie)
Sassoon family
Savits, Jocza
Savkari Pash see Merchant of Venice, The
Savoy theatre, London
Saxo Grammaticus
Schalkwyk, David
Schaubühne theatre, Berlin
Scheemakers, Peter
Schikaneder, Emanuel
von Schiller, Johann Christoph Friedrich
von Schirach, Baldur
von Schirach, Carl
von Schlegel, August Wilhelm
von Schlegel, Caroline
Schlösser, Rainer
Schröder, Friedrich Ludwig
Scotland
Scott, Joko
Scott, Walter
Seagull, The (Chekhov play)
Sebastian, Texas
Second World War see World War II
Seminole Wars (1816–1858)
Sémiramis see Othello
Sen, Koushik
Seneca
Senegal
Seoul, South Korea
Separate Amenities Act (South Africa 1953)
Sesotho
Sestier, Marius
Setswana
Seyler, Abel
Shah, M. R.
Shaheed-e-Naz see Measure for Measure
Shahnama
Shakespeare, Edmund
Shakespeare, Hamnet
Shakespeare, Judith
Shakespeare, William
1564 birth
1585 birth of Hamnet and Judith
1592 first record as playwright; accused of plagiarism by Greene
1599 first known performance of Julius Caesar
1602 moves in with Mountjoy family
1603 writes Othello; becomes royal servant
1607 starts work on Pericles xx,; death of brother (Edmund)
1608 company moves to Blackfriars Playhouse
1611 debut of The Tempest
1613 writes Henry VIII and The Two Noble Kinsmen
1616 death
birthday
birthplace (Henley Street, Stratford)
funerary monument
residences
as royal servant
tercentenary (1864)
will
Shakespeare Against Apartheid (Orkin)
Shakespeare: A Germanic Writer
Shakespeare and Germany (Jones)
Shakespeare Association of America
Shakespeare Association of Britain
Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare Club, Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare Glossary, A (Onions)
Shakespeare in the Park, New York
Shakespeare Jahrbuch
Shakespeare Library, Birmingham
Shakespeare Memorial theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon
Shakespeare Must Die see Macbeth
Shakespeare Sarani, Kolkata
Shakespeare Schools Festival South Africa (SSF SA)
Shakespeare Society of China
Shakespeare Society of Eastern India
Shakespeare Society of India
Shakespeare Society of Southern Africa
Shakespeare Theatre Company, Washington DC
Shakespeare und der Deutsche Geist (Gundolf)
‘Shakespeare und Kein Ende!’ (Goethe)
Shakespeare Wallah
Shakespeare, New Mexico
Shakespeareana Theatre Company
Shakespeare’s Festive Comedy (Barber)
Shakespearian Spinach (US cartoon)
Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
Shakuntala (Kalidasa play)
Shanghai, China
Sharpeville Massacre (1960)
Shaw, George Bernard
Shearer, Norma
Shelley, Percy Bysshe
shenguai xiaoshuo (Chinese fiction genre)
Sher, Antony
Sheridan, Richard Brinsley
Sherlock, Ceri
Shinawatra, Thaksin
Shoreditch, London
Shostakovich, Dmitri
Shylock; or, the Merchant of Venice Preserved (Talfourd play) see Merchant of Venice, The
Sicily, Italy
Siddique
Siddons, Sarah
Sidney, Philip
Sierra Leone
Sierra Nevada Mountains, California
Silverstone, Alicia
Simmons, Jean
Simon, Barney
Simons, Johan
Singapore
Sinha, Mala
Sinha, Pratibha
Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945)
Sir Thomas More
Sisson, Charles Jasper
Sisulu, Walter
Sizwe Banzi is Dead (Fugard play)
slavery
Slumdog Millionaire (UK film)
Smalberger, Lize-Marie
Smetana, Bedřich
Smiley, Jane
Smuts, Jan
Song Qingru
Songs of Ariel (Martin)
Sonnets (Shakespeare)
One
Twelve
Sixty-Five
One-Hundred and Nine
One-Hundred and Twenty-Six
Sophie, Grand Duchess of Saxony
Sophocles
Sopot, Poland
Sotho languages
South Africa
South African National Front
South African Native National Congress (SANNC); see also ANC
South Korea
South Park Street Cemetery, Kolkata
Soviet Union
Soweto, Johannesburg
Soweto Uprising (1976)
Spacey, Kevin
Spain
Spanish Tragedy, The (Kyd play)
Speed, Indiana
Spenser, Edmund
spice trade
Spurgeon, Caroline
Sri Lanka
Sriwanichpoom, Manit
St Louis, Missouri
St Mary Overie, London
St Paul’s cathedral, London
St Petersburg, Russia
Staatstheater, Berlin
Stanford University, California
Stark, James
Stark, Sarah Kirby
Staunton, Virginia
Stereotype printing
Stevens, John Paul
Stewart, Frederick
Stieler, Joseph Karl
Strasbourg, Alsace
Stratford, Connecticut
Stratford, Ontario
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Stravinsky, Igor
Strayhorn, Billy
Street, Peter
Sturm, Der (Martin) see Tempest, The
Sturm und Drang (proto-Romantic movement)
Stuttgart, Germany
Such Sweet Thunder (Ellington)
Sunkersett, Jagannath
Surat, Gujarat
Sutter, John
Suzman, Janet
Swahili
Swapnasandhani Theatre Company
Sweden
Swift, Jonathan
Switzerland
Sydney, Australia
T
Taffety Punk Theatre Company
Tagore, Dwarkanath
Tagore, Rabindranath
Taipei, Taiwan
Taiwan
Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy (opera)
Tales from Shakespeare (Lambs)
Talfourd, Francis
Tamburlaine (Marlowe play)
Tamil
Taming of the Shrew, The
Garrick’s adaptation (1754)
Hong Kong APA staging
Lin Zhaohua’s adaptation
misogyny in
NCPA staging (2014)
play-within-the-play
Surat performance (1852)
Ten Things I Hate About You (1999 film)
Tang dynasty (618–907)
Tanzania
Tara see Cymbeline
Tate, Nahum
Tayao niang (Chinese play)
Taylor, Tom
Taylor, Zachary
Telbin, William
Tempest, The
debut in London (c.1611)
Dryden & Davenant’s adaptation (1667)
Martin’s opera (1955)
Tieck’s German translation (1799)
10ml love (2010 film) see Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
Tennessee, United States
Tennyson, Alfred
Terry, Ellen
Texas, United States
Thackeray, William Makepeace
Thailand
Thalheimer, Michael
theatre Royal, Liverpool
theatre Royal, London
36 Chowringhee Lane (Indian movie)
Thirty Years’ War (1618–1648)
Thorndike, Ashley T.
Thornton, Dora
Thousand Acres, A (Smiley) see King Lear
Throne of Blood see Macbeth
Thurtell, Karl
Tian Han
Tian Qinxin
Tiananmen Square, Beijing
Massacre (1989)
Tibet
Tieck, Dorothea
Tieck, Ludwig
Tilbury, London
Tilney, Edmund
Times, The
Times Literary Supplement
Times of India
Timol, Ahmed
Timon of Athens
Titanic
Titus Andronicus
Tiv people
de Tocqueville, Alexis
Toronto, Canada
translation of Shakespeare
Afrikaans
Bengali
Cantonese
Cape Dutch
classical Chinese
Dari Persian
Dutch
ethics of
French
German
Gujarati
Hindi
Hindustani
Japanese
Kannada
Klingon
Korean
Malayalam
Mandarin
Marathi
Parsi
Russian
Setswana
Tamil
Urdu
Treaty of Nanjing (1842)
Treaty of Versailles (1919)
Trier, Germany
Trinamool Congress party (TMC)
Tripoli, Libya
Tristan und Isolde (Wagner opera)
Trivedi, Poonam
Troilus and Cressida
Trollope, Frances
True Chronicle History of King Leir and his Three Daughters, The (play)
True Tragedie of Richard the Third, The (play)
Tsubouchi, Shōyō
Tswana people
Tunisia
Turgenev, Ivan
Turkey
Twain, Mark
Twelfth Night
New Alfred Dramatic Company production (1905)
Setswana translation
tercentenary performance in Stratford (1864)
Two Gentlemen of Verona, The
Two Noble Kinsmen, The
U
Über dramatische Kunst und Literatur (Tieck)
Über naive und sentimentalische Dichtung (Schiller)
Ulrici, Hermann
Unisa see University of South Africa
United States, American colonies
University College London
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)
University of Central Florida
University of Delhi
University of Gdansk
University of Macau
University of Mumbai
University of Natal
University of Oregon
University of South Africa (Unisa)
University of the Performing Arts, Munich
University of the Witwatersrand
University of Wisconsin
‘unser Shakespeare’ in Germany
Urdu
USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
Utah, United States
Uttar Pradesh, India
V
Vadodara, Gujarat
Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Vasundhara see Macbeth
Venice, Italy
Venkatrathnam, Sonny
Venus and Adonis
Verdi, Giuseppe
Verma, Deven
Versailles, Treaty of (1919)
Verwoerd, Hendrik
Victoria, Queen of the United Kingdom
Vienna, Austria
Vienna State Opera
Vining, Edward P.
Virgil
Virginia, United States
Voltaire
Vusani, Joseph
W
Wagner, Richard
Waiting for Godot (Beckett play)
Wales
Wallenstein (Schiller play)
Walton, William
Wanamaker, Sam
Wang Jianqi
Wangfujing, Beijing
Warde, Frederick B.
Wars of the Roses (1455–1485)
Warsaw, Poland
Warwickshire, England; see also Stratford-upon-Avon
Washington, George
Washington DC
Weigel, Alexander
Weimar, Germany
Weimar Republic
Weinberg, Joanna
Wen Jiabao
Wenming (Chinese dramatic form)
West, Anthony James
West Bank, Palestine
West Bengal, India
Whitman, Walt
Whittaker, Jay
Wilhelm II, German Emperor
Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre (Goethe)
Wilhelm Meisters Theatralische Sendung (Goethe)
Wilhelm Meisters Wanderjahre (Goethe)
Willan, Brian
Williamsburg, Virginia
Wilson, Woodrow
Windsor Great Park, England
Winter’s Tale, The
Wirrwarr, Der (Klinger play)
Wisconsin, United States
Witmore, Michael
Wittenberg, Germany
Wordsworth, William
Working Men’s Shakespeare Committee
World Shakespeare Festival (2012)
World War I (1914–1918)
World War II (1939–1945)
World’s Fairs
1933 Chicago
1936 Dallas
1936–7 Cleveland
Wörlitz, Germany
Wright, Alice Morgan
Wright, Louis B.
Wyoming, United States
X
Xhosa people
Xiamen University of Technology
Xian kuai see Midsummer Night’s Dream, A
Xiewai qitan see Tales from Shakespeare (Lambs)
Xun han see Taming of the Shrew, The
Y
Yajnik, R. K.
Yan Fu
Yan’an, Shaanxi
Yangtze river
Yankee Jim’s, California
Yi jian mei see Two Gentlemen of Verona, The
Yin Tao
Yingguo shiren yinbian yanyu see Tales from Shakespeare (Lambs)
Yiqun Wang
Yorktown, Virginia
Yoruba
Young, Arthur
Young, Brigham
Yu Erchang
Yuan hu see Much Ado About Nothing
Yutkevich, Sergei
Z
Zagreb, Croatia
Zan Mureed see Antony and Cleopatra
Zaubeflöte, Die (Mozart opera)
Zhang Chong
Zhang Peipei
Zhang Sihan
Zhang Yiyi
Zhejiang, China
Zhejiang University
Zheng Yuxiu
Zhengyici theatre, Beijing
Zhou dynasty (c.1046–256 BCE)
Zhu qing see Romeo and Juliet
Zhu Shanggang
Zhu Shenghao
Zhu Xijuan
Zhu Yuanzhang
Ziegler, Wilbur G.
Zokufa, Sinako
Zonophone
Zoroastrians
Zulu people
‘Zum Shakespeares Tag’ (Goethe)
Zuma, Jacob
About the Author
ANDREW DICKSON was raised in Yorkshire and studied at Cambridge. He is currently an honorary fellow at Birkbeck, University of London, was a visiting fellow at the University of Warwick, and has contributed to The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare. Formerly an arts editor at The Guardian in London, he continues to write regularly for the paper and has also written for The New Yorker online and the New Statesman. He makes regular appearances on BBC radio and TV as a presenter and reviewer and blogs at worldselsewhere.com. You can sign up for author updates here.
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Contents
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Epigraph
Prologue
Hamletomanie
Gdańsk · Weimar · Munich · Berlin
Buried Richards
Staunton, Virginia · Washington DC · San Francisco · Nevada City, California · San Diego
Gurudeva
Mumbai · Pune · Kolkata · New Delhi
William Shake-the-Sword
Johannesburg · Kimberley · Durban · Cape Town
Strange Tales
Beijing · Shanghai · Taipei · Hong Kong
Select bibliography
Acknowledgements
Index
About the Author
Copyright